Education
Winter completed a Bachelor of Arts in History, Political Science and Biblical Studies at the University of Queensland.
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Winter completed a Bachelor of Arts in History, Political Science and Biblical Studies at the University of Queensland.
His academic work has focused on the 1st-century context of the Christian religion in the Roman Empire, about which he has written a number of books and numerous journal articles After working for some time in the Australian Public Service, during which time he received a Diploma in Public Administration, he commenced training for ordination at Moore Theological College in Sydney. In 1973, he left Australia and began parish ministry at the Anglican Saint George"s Church, Singapore.
After three years, he became the Warden of Street Peter"s Hall, a part of Trinity Theological College in Singapore.
Winter later applied for the position of Warden at Tyndale House, Cambridge (United Kingdom), and was appointed to the role in August 1987. He remained Warden until the end of 2006, after which he took up the position of Principal of the Queensland Theological College, where he remained until December 2011.
Winter is a former editor of the Tyndale Bulletin. In 2004, a Festschrift was published in his honour.
The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B. West. Winter on His 65th Birthday included contributions from I. Howard Marshall, Doctorate. A. Carson, and Paul Barnett.
Paul and Philo Among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).
He is a member of the Tyndale Fellowship, the Society of Biblical Literature, the British Epigraphic Society, and was elected a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.